Hey guys. I've not been on here for two years now. I was watching a film last night and I heard Mika's music in the Monte Carlo film. It was so nice to hear him again. Has anyone seen it? It's worth a watch.
oh yeah i did watch the movie! and i loved it more cuz it has so many beautiful scene of Monte Carlo... i found out that his songs was playing on this movie, i think i read it on IMDB web site or some where else .and now i really want to take another look at it cuz there were a big list of the movies that has his songs as background playing!
ABOUT THE DIRECTORS
Argentina-born, New York-based artist Mika Rottenberg is devoted to a rigorous practice that combines film, architectural installation, and sculpture to explore ideas of labor and the production of value in our contemporary hyper-capitalist world.
Using traditions of both cinema and sculpture, she seeks out locations around the world where specific systems of production and commerce are in place, such as a pearl factory in China, and a Calexico border town. Through the editing process, and with footage from sets built in her studio, Rottenberg connects seemingly disparate places and things to create elaborate and subversive visual narratives. By weaving fact and fiction together, she highlights the inherent beauty and absurdity of our contemporary existence.
Born in Buenos Aires in 1976, Rottenberg spent her formative years in Israel then moved to the US where she earned her BA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and followed this with an MFA at Columbia in 2004.
Mahyad Tousi is a multidisciplinary writer, producer, cinematographer, and director working across story formats, genres, and platforms; his projects span network television to the modern art world. He was the executive producer of CBS primetime comedy UNITED STATES OF AL. He is currently writing and producing 1001, a sci-fi adaptation of THE TALES FROM A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS, and co-directing REMOTE, a film created with his long-time collaborator and renowned video artist Mika Rottenberg.
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Animal Image is a soundtrack album to a poetic documentary about the infinite relationship between man and animal. Edited to an improvised score by Finnish trumpet Verneri Pohjola and percussionist Mika Kallio, the film illustrates the emotional bond between man and animal beyond the boundaries of written language or fictional storylines.
The music is an invitation towards becoming an animal. To unthink identity and subjectivity. Listen. Free from definition, from body to flesh, where the one is a figure of unity and strength, while the other is in an interminable manifestation of disarticulation, a condition of freedom for animals or whatever it is we are.
When I saw the breathtakingly expressive footage for the first time, I immediately recognized this as something too inspiring to retract myself from. And as the project developed I realized, that probably no other project or person has ever treated my music with such a respect and vision. It was lifted up to the next level.
In her absurdist films, Mika Rottenberg views the systems of capital through the lens of the offbeat, the exaggerated, and the gaudy. Her vision combines a penchant for the visceral, be it expressed through languid foodstuffs or bodily emanations, with a desire to express the physical realities of labor and the vexed systems by which goods are produced.
Aki Kaurismki, who had worked as Mika's assistant and a screenwriter, began his career as a director when Mika produced his film Crime and Punishment (1984). During the active Villealfa years, Mika co-founded the Midnight Sun Film Festival (1986) and the distribution company Senso Films (1987), and the Andorra cinemas in Helsinki.
The 1990s saw the gradual fading of the Villealfa spirit; Mika and Aki started to produce their films separately, through their own production companies. Mika had founded Marianna Films in 1987 and its first independent production was Zombie and the Ghost Train (1991).
During the production of Moro no Brasil (2002) Kaurismki opened a live music club, Mika's Bar, in Rio de Janeiro, but gave it up later and decided to concentrate primarily on film making. In 2003 he was a member of the jury at the 25th Moscow International Film Festival.[4]
Kaurismki has lived in Brazil since approximately 1992.[citation needed] He is the father of Maria Kaurismki. She graduated from Tampere School of Art and Media in 2008 with her movie Sideline.[7][8]
My research and teaching focus on topics that are socially and politically urgent with crisis, vulnerability, justice and futures being key to my pedagogy and my wider work in disaster studies, environmental humanities and postcolonial studies. I work across literature, film, and visual art and see creativity and imagination as central to the how we make sense of the world around us.
My seminars are all about working and reading together towards a better, more critical understanding of the world around us. All courses I teach are rooted in an inclusive dialogue and encourage everyone to participate and learn from each other.
Join in for the screening of REMOTE, the debut feature-length film by Mika Rottenberg and Mahyad Tousi at Broadway Cinema. The duration of the film is 85 minutes and will begin with an introduction by artist and lecturer Candice Jacobs.
REMOTE follows Unoaku, an expat architect living in a solar-punk apartment in Kuala Lumpur, and four other women living on their own in Iran, Argentine, Puerto Rico and South Africa. While watching a popular South Korean dog grooming show, the five women discover they are connected through mysterious portals hidden in their homes.
Argentina-born, New York-based artist Mika Rottenberg is devoted to a rigorous practice that combines film, architectural installation, and sculpture to explore ideas of labor and the production of value in our contemporary hyper-capitalist world.
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The first book to address the films holistically and from a variety of cultural perspectives, Fan Phenomena: Star Wars explores numerous aspects of Star Wars fandom, from its characters to its philosophy. Academically informed but written for a general audience, this book will appeal to every fan and critic of the films.
'While we are all busy being Star Wars fans there's something very enticing in reading about how the fandom works, and that's what this book brings... Definitely worth the time for any fan of fandom or Star Wars to read.'
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Despite being plentiful in planetary destruction overflowing with explosions and incorporating an abundant amount of action, you might be surprised at how much care and consideration went into the physics and science behind such colossal cosmic carnage.
There's an entire array of science consultants who worked on "Moonfall." Mika McKinnon is a geophysicist and disaster researcher who has acted as a science advisor on several sci-fi TV shows and movies, including "Moonfall," and Space.com was fortunate enough to speak with her about what it was like to create the epic disaster film.
McKinnon said that there were "three science consultants, a medical consultant and a physical consultant and a shuttle consultant, like an astronaut consult" working to make "Moonfall" scientifically accurate, McKinnon said.
"I got to talk about things like the Apollo missions, when we started deliberately banging things into the moon in order to do deep geophysics. And one of the sentences I used is actually now used as a phrase in the movie!
The film is "a work of fiction in that the moon ... is not crashing into the Earth," McKinnon said. "But there's a lot of really like actually good science muzzled in all over the place in this movie, everything from like the horizon glow of what it looks like to look at a sunrise, sunset and space," she added.
McKinnon calls Vancouver home and she gained her master's degree in geophysics from the University of British Columbia. This also meant she happened to be living in the city where "Stargate: SG1" was filmed at the time it was being filmed. Fortunate to be in the right place at the right time, McKinnon found herself offering scientific advice at first, in a role that grew over time.
"Stargate was a really amazing experience because it was my first time on set and it could have easily been something where I was taken advantage of ... I was a student. I'd never had a real job. I didn't know anything," McKinnon joked.
"And instead, everybody kind of like took me under their wing and went, all right, let's teach you how to be on set. Let's teach you about like, why you wear dark colors and don't have jangly things and brought me back time and time and time again. And as I got more experience, as I built up more trust with them, they gave me more and more interesting projects!"
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